Tagged African-American history

"Out under the moon and the stars, alone with his son...he walked to the edge of the village, lifted his baby up with his face to the heavens, and said softly, "Fend kiling dorong leh warrata ka iteh tee." (Beh...

After the civil war, regiments of African-American soldiers served on the western frontier, battling Native-Americans and protecting European settlers. They became known as Buffalo Soldiers. These buffalo soldi...

The Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company organized by Black filmmakers, and developed a solid reputation for producing films that, according to one Black observer,
“ . . . proved a reve...

The Chicago Defender was the United States' most influential Black weekly newspaper by the advent of World War I, with more than two thirds of its readership base located outside of Chicago. It was founded by R...

The Great Depression of the 1930s, threw millions of Americans out of work. During the depression years, Blacks and whytes routinely "hoboed" (hitchhiked) freight trains, traveling from place to place looking f...

“They came with horses. They came with nightsticks. And I was standing, and people were running... I did not run, so he hit me at the base of my neck, and I became unconsious." ~Amelia Boynton Robinson
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"I’ve been marked for death within the next five days."
By early 1965 most of Malcolm's closest friends were afraid for his safety. They believed that without a change of course he would soon died. Various...

The Register of the Treasury was an office of the United States Treasury Department. The signature of the Register of the Treasury was found on almost all United States currency until 1923, along with that of t...

Noble Drew Ali, born Timothy Drew on January 8th, 1886, was the founder of the Moorish Science Temple of America.
The accounts of Timothy Drew's childhood are varied, from him being the son of two former ens...

John Singleton is the African American film director, screenwriter and producer best known for directing Boyz n the Hood - becoming the first African American and youngest director to have ever been nominated f...